The Viking Age. Volume 1 (of 2): The early history, manners, and customs of the ancestors of the English-speaking nationsDu Chaillu, Paul B. (Paul Belloni)
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The Viking Age. Volume 1 (of 2): The early history, manners, and customs of the ancestors of the English-speaking nations
Fig. 607.—A buckle of bronze found with an iron needle. Bröttby.
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[Illustration:
Fig. 608.
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[Illustration:
Fig. 609.
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[Illustration:
Fig. 610.
Glass beads, of pale red colour, with white flowers with light and
dark-green leaves; one is fastened to a silver wire. Of the twelve
beads, three are represented here. Bröttby.
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[Illustration:
Fig. 611.
Bronze chain, found in a small elevation ½ foot deep, with a bead
covered with some metal, and a silver wire _like the one in Bröttby
parish_. Upland.
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[Illustration:
Fig. 612. Fig. 613.
Denarius of Marcus Aurelius A.D. 162. Bröttby.
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AARESLEV FIND.
[Illustration:
Fig. 614.—Fibula of gold, ornamented with eight garnets. Aareslev,
Fyen. Real size.
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[Illustration:
Fig. 615.—Fibula with hanging ornament of gold, real size,
representing a lion’s head; the filagree work is ornamented with
garnets, found with another large silver fibula, a crystal ball, a
vase of bronze, an imitation of a Roman coin, &c. Aareslev, Fyen.
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[Illustration:
Fig. 616.—The crystal ball with Greek inscription found near a
skeleton with hanging ornaments, &c. Aareslev, Fyen. Real size.
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[Illustration:
Fig. 617.—Part of a belt buckle, silver gilt. ⅓ real size.
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[Illustration:
Fig. 618.—Bronze vessel, ⅕ real size, so brittle, that only by
covering it all around with clay could it be moved away. It is made
of two parts joined together in the middle with small flat rivets of
bronze, and contained six quarts of burnt bones, among which were
seventeen human teeth, different articles of iron and bronze, which
had been packed in apparently coarse linen, small fragments of which
only remained; a bronze mounting for a drinking-horn, and different
kinds of iron knives; iron mounting for a knife-handle, remains of
two iron awls, an iron key, two small melted lumps of silver,
remains of about thirty-two bone needles, a glass bead with green
ground and yellow stripes, remains of four earthen vessels, &c.
Möllegaard, Broholm.
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[Illustration:
Fig. 619.—Bronze ornament, real size, found with kettle. Möllegaard,
Broholm.
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[Illustration:
Fig. 620. Fig. 621.
Byzantine gold coins, fifth century, Libius Severus and Leo, found in
Björnhofda, Öland, with thirty-three other coins of the same
century. Real size.
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[Illustration:
Fig. 622. Fig. 623.
Barbaric imitation of Byzantine coin of the fifth century. Real size.
Mallgards, Gotland.
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[Illustration:
Fig. 624. Fig. 625.
Antonini Pii.
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[Illustration:
Fig. 626. Fig. 627.
Faustina the younger.
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CHAPTER XVI.
GLASS.
Vessels with painted figures—Vessels with Greek
letters—Drinking-horns of glass—Cut glass.
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